A guest post authored by Jennine Townsend, expert sysadmin and AWS aficionado
There were so many sessions at re:Invent! Now that it’s over, I want to watch some sessions on video, but which ones?
Of course I’ll pick out those that are specific to my interests, but I also want to know the sessions that had good buzz, so I made a list that’s kind of mashed together from sessions that I heard good things about on Twitter, with those that had lots of repeats and overflow sessions, figuring those must have been popular.
But I confess I left out some whole categories! There aren’t sessions for Alexa or DeepRacer (not that I’m not interested, they’re just not part of my re:Invent followup), and I don’t administer any Windows systems so I leave out most of those sessions.
Some sessions have YouTube links, some don’t (yet) have and may never have YouTube videos, since lots of (types of) sessions aren’t recorded. (But even there, if I search the topic and speakers, I bet I can often find an earlier talk.)
There’s not much of a ranking: keynotes at the top, sessions I heard good things about in the middle, then sessions that had lots of repeats. It’s only mildly specific to my interests, so I thought other people might find it helpful. It’s also not really finished, but I wanted to get started watching sessions this weekend!
Keynotes
Peter DeSantis Monday Night Live
Terry Wise Global Partner Keynote
Popular: Buzz during AWS re:Invent
DEV322 What’s New with the AWS CLI (Kyle Knapp, James Saryerwinnie)
SRV409 A Serverless Journey: AWS Lambda Under the Hood
CON362 Container Power Hour with Jess, Clare, and Abby
SRV375 Lambda Layers and Runtime API (Danilo Poccia) - Chalk Talk
SRV338 Configuration Management and Service Discovery (mentions CloudMap) (Alex Casalboni, Ben Kehoe) - Chalk Talk
CON367 Introducing App Mesh (Kiran Meduri, Shubha Rao, James Straub)
SRV355 Best Practices for CI/CD with AWS Lambda and Amazon API Gateway (Chris Munns) (focuses on SAM, CodeStar, I believe) - Chalk Talk
DEV327 Advanced Infrastructure as Code Programming on AWS
SRV322 From Monolith to Modern Apps: Best Practices
Popular: Repeats During AWS re:Invent
CON301 Mastering Kubernetes on AWS
ARC202 Running Lean Architectures: How to Optimize for Cost Efficiency
DEV319 Continuous Integration Best Practices
AIM404 Build, Train, and Deploy ML Models Quickly and Easily with Amazon SageMaker
STG209 Amazon S3 Storage Management (Scott Hewitt) - Chalk Talk
ENT205 Executing a Large-Scale Migration to AWS (Joe Chung, Jonathan Allen, Mike Wittig)
DEV317 Advanced Continuous Delivery Best Practices
CON308 Building Microservices with Containers
ANT323 Build Your Own Log Analytics Solutions on AWS
ANT201 Big Data Analytics Architectural Patterns and Best Practices
DEV403 Automate Common Maintenance & Deployment Tasks Using AWS Systems Manager - Builders Session
DAT356 Which Database Should I Use? - Builders Session
DEV309 CI/CD for Serverless and Containerized Applications
ARC209 Architecture Patterns for Multi-Region Active-Active Applications
AIM401 Deep Learning Applications Using TensorFlow
SRV305 Inside AWS: Technology Choices for Modern Applications
SEC401 Mastering Identity at Every Layer of the Cake
SEC371 Incident Response in AWS - Builders Session
SEC322 Using AWS Lambda as a Security Team
NET404 Elastic Load Balancing: Deep Dive and Best Practices